Support CTS and be part of a global day of giving on Tuesday, November 29. #Giving Tuesday is a movement harnessing the power of social media to spur end-of-year giving. After the commercial focus of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, #Giving Tuesday is a call for people to give back to the […]

The gift of respite, reflection and renewal is being awarded to 146 U.S. congregations — including 29 Indiana congregations — via the 2016 Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program grants and Clergy Renewal Program for Indiana Congregations. The program provides pastoral leaders with a respite from the daily demands of parish life, allowing them time […]

Names can quickly become misnomers. Take for example the term “Nones” which was widely publicized in outlets such as the New York Times and NPR following publication of a Pew Forum study last fall. Amid the media frenzy, a trend toward less affiliation with specific religions became erroneously interpreted as a trend away from religious […]

The phrase “finding one’s voice” has become a pervasive yet elusive metaphor for identity. How is the pastoral voice developed and what components come together to define a pastor’s voice? In his new book, Finding Voice— How Theological Field Education Shapes Pastoral Identity, (Wipf and Stock Publishers) CTS Director of Field Education and Herald B. […]

The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) Book Club recently praised the book ¡Santo! by Edwin David Aponte, the vice president and academic dean of Christian Theological Seminary. NCR says the book sheds light on the history and future of the Latino community revealing the broad and complex nature of a culture that many Anglos have not […]

INDIANAPOLIS—Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University have appointed world-renowned South African theologian Allan Boesak as Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Global Justice, and Reconciliation Studies, a new four-year position held jointly with both institutions. The title recognizes Boesak’s influential activism against racial apartheid in the 1980s in his native South Africa, where he worked closely […]

Are you hindering someone else’s freedom? Are you even free yourself? In his new book Freedom in Resistance and Creative Transformation, CTS Professor Michael Miller argues that despite the claimed importance of freedom in the Christian faith—not to mention a host of other secular settings—there continues to be interpersonal, socio-political, and religious power hierarchies that […]

Commencement celebrations at CTS this spring are about more than mortar boards and matriculates. The seminary is also celebrating the commencement of a new CTS Vision. Read the entire document: A Strategic Vision for CTS (PDF). Below, CTS President Matthew Myer Boulton elaborates on the Vision Document recently approved by the CTS Board of Trustees. […]

The publication of The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History concludes a seven-year journey for Scott Seay, Christian Theological Seminary Associate Professor of the History of Global Christianity. Professor Seay served as managing editor of the book, working with general editors D. Newell Williams, Douglas A. Foster and Paul M. Blowers, as well as 10 contributing […]

Fifty years after the April 12, 1963, Good Friday arrest of Martin Luther King in Birmingham, Alabama—where he famously penned, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”—Christian Theological Seminary (CTS) commemorated the half-century anniversary of a momentous year in the American Civil Rights movement. Some of the world’s most renowned and influential thought leaders on Dr. King’s […]